"philo" wrote in message news
I was given a 5Tb external drive that cause the machine to lock up.
The woman who brought it to me is running Win10


Normally I remove the drives and install them internally to see if the
drive is good or if the enclosure simply has bad electronics.

Though I confirmed the enclosure is bad by trying it with a known good
drive...it seems the 5TB drive is corrupted.

It does not come up in Explorer and disk management "wants" to
initialize it which will desultory all data.


From a Google search I see there are utilities to repair the MBR but
since it's 5TB I assume it's GPT.


I advised her to take it to a data recovery outfit but am wondering if
there is anything safe I can try?


I am pretty sure I'm going to wash my hands of the matter


Have used this successfully in the past for unreadable disks.
http://www.dposoft.net/hdd.html
Kenny